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The Unicorn Head Squirrel Feeder by Archie McPhee is a great hanging feeder that transforms hungry woodland creatures into a legendary animal. Archie McPhee‘s overhead feeder is designed to “uplift” the squirrels, instead of humiliating them like their previous feeders. It is available to purchase online. With our other feeders we humiliated squirrels, but the […]

As Dale Houghton Jr. found out during a recent stay, the Aloft Hotel in Cupertino, California has a robot butler that delivers room service orders to guests. The robot is a SaviOne created by Savioke, which was deployed to the hotel as part of a pilot program to test the robot. The SaviOne travels at a walking […]

Before Chris Farley passed away in 1997, he was the original actor cast as the fictional green ogre in DreamWorks Studios‘ 2001 animated film Shrek. In the previously unreleased video, shared by film producer John Garbett, you can hear Farley and other voice actors reciting their lines. According to Lost Media Wiki, the cast of […]

We’re not sure why, but we’ll miss you. Arby’s has bid goodbye to the outgoing host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, with a meaty rendition of “Thank You for Being a Friend,” the theme from the classic sitcom The Golden Girls. The fast food chain was a frequent punchline for Stewart during his more than 15-year […]

photo via The Muppets After recently announcing their breakup, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy have each joined the swipe-based dating site Tinder. Each of their profiles include their interests and an unflattering comment about the other. The couple’s split is a plot point of the new series The Muppets premiering on ABC on September 22, […]

Internet puppets Fafa the Groundhog and Mario talk about Hollywood’s upcoming Ghostbusters reboots films and share ten more alternate reboot ideas of their own in a recent episode of Glove and Boots.

Oltedal, Norway-based musician Leo Moracchioli of Frog Leap Studios recently performed an awesome heavy metal cover of the original Ghostbusters theme song, which was recorded by Ray Parker, Jr. in 1984. The Ghosbusters cover is currently available to purchase online from Amazon, Loudr, and Google Play. Fans of Leo‘s work can support the future release […]

“London Minute” is a time-lapse video by British photographer Paul Richardson for Marriott International that captured some of the city’s most iconic features and sights in just a shade over one minute. Richardson had made a similar film about Paris in 2014. Zoom from the London Eye to Big Ben, coast over the River Thames […]

A graceful Denso VS-050-S2 robot performs a rhythmic gymnastics routine using a blue ribbon. The robotic arm performs a number of different maneuvers, and the video ends by showing the maneuvers next to a visualization of how they appear to the computer. The Denso VS-050-S2 robot was designed to have applications in the pharmaceutical and […]

Filmmakers Claire&Max, whose work we’ve previously posted, wanted to look at their city a little differently. After a bit of thought they decided to set the viewpoint of their camera at different angles to make the hills of Paris appear to flatten out. In line with our experimental films, here “Paris – Viewpoint angle” or […]

Chris Poole, the loving and dedicated human to Cole and Marmalade, demonstrates how to make yummy frozen treats for kitties who get very warm in the summer heat. The treats taste good and provide the extra water our furry friends need during these hot months. Summer’s here! … We all know cats love to be […]

In “Turnsmile“, stock footage company Dissolve has created a toothy compilation featuring people who repeatedly break the fourth wall by turning and smiling at an invisible audience. They turn … they see you … and they smile. Even through a screen, these gestures make us feel acknowledged, special, likable — and more open to the […]

An inventive father wanted to give his daughter a memory, rather than a toy, for her fifth birthday. While she was napping on the special day, he assembled a 50-meter crazy straw, a section of which spelled out “HAPPY BIRTHDAY” in straws, and gave her one end of it when she woke up. It took […]

In the new trailer for the second season of the HBO series The Leftovers, a beleaguered Kevin Garvey (Justin Theroux) and the rest of his family set their sights for Miracle, Texas, a place that touts itself as having zero departures. But as the narrator says, “there are no miracles in Miracle.” More than three […]

The PowerUp 3.0 smartphone-controlled paper airplane by PowerUp Toys is a small device that turns a regular paper airplane into a powered, remote-controlled flyer. The device pairs with a smartphone app that lets the user easily control their plane within a 180-foot range. The durable materials and construction of the PowerUp 3.0 are designed to be […]

“Chop, Where Are You!” is a fun video by BTZ where he recreates the opening credits to Hanna-Barbera‘s classic Saturday morning cartoon series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, in Grand Theft Auto V. I loved this show and I haven’t seen anybody doing a remake. I did what had to be done. Here is a side-by-side […]

“Gotta hide your stash or a bag of cash. Who you gonna call? Saul Goodman!” Austin, Texas-based musician Jeff Dutton (a.k.a. “Bonecage“) has created a musical 1980s parody of AMC’s Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul television series that is set to a Saul Goodman-themed remix of the original Ghostbusters theme song. We previously wrote […]

Cultivated Wit has begun an online campaign to build a 300-mile wall around San Francisco and the Bay Area during the week of Burning Man so that festival attendees can’t get back into the city. The ambitious project is seeking $7,300,000,000 to build the wall from Point Reyes or Santa Cruz through the crowdfunding site MegaGoGo, which […]

The Los Angeles-based “introspective video game documentarian” GoldVision has created GTA Pacifist, an online web series where he narrates his life in the dangerous video game world of Grand Theft Auto V while trying to play as a virtuous pacifist named Francisco. With the constant barrage of drug and violence-related obstacles that stand in Francisco’s […]

Filmmaker Martin Heck of Timestorm Films has compiled together the beautiful footage he took of southern Chile and Argentina to create Patagonia 8K, a gorgeous time lapse film that captures the changing terrain of the two countries. Spanning over 7,500 kilometers from Chile’s capital city of Santiago to its southernmost region of Punta Arenas and […]

SciShow host Hank Green explains how quicksand works and the physics to use to escape if you happen to find yourself sinking in it.

Bigrig driver OnTheGo KindaDude explains how he passes other trucks on the road. The video was posted on reddit where he answered a bunch of questions about what it is like being a long-haul truck driver. via reddit

NASA has released an “epic” view of the Moon transiting the Earth taken by the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) spacecraft’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) camera. The DSCOVR orbits the Earth from one million miles away, which allowed it to capture this unique view of the far side of the Moon as it passed […]

Where Pride Began A trailer has been released for the highly anticipated Stonewall, a film written and directed by Roland Emmerich about the homophobic chain of events that led up to the historic Stonewall Riots of 1969 that took place in New York City’s Greenwich Village and gave birth to the modern gay rights movement. […]

Chesterton, Indiana-based musician Jarad Moloney (a.k.a. “NPC“) has created a rocking mashup of Smash Mouth‘s hit song “All Star” from 1999 and the very popular song from 2000, “In the End,” by Linkin Park. Even Moloney could not believe how well the songs went together, thus the title of his track “THIS SHOULDN’T WORK, WHY […]

Last night on the Tonight Show, the legendary comedy magic duo Penn and Teller showed Jimmy Fallon the classic magician’s trick of how to pull a rabbit out of a hat.

In the music video for his song “Avalanche“, Canadian musician Kalle Mattson and director Philip Sportel cleverly recreated 35 classic album covers, including his own. The list of albums, provided by commenter Efrain Gutiérrez, encompasses a great many familiar names. Here’s the full list for anyone that’s interested: 1 Wilco – Foxtrot 2 Neil Young […]

French artist Baptiste Debombourg has created “Stellar“, an amazing rollercoaster sculpture that features giant steel ellipses lined with 1200 patio chairs in six different colors. The sculpture stands as part of the “Le Voyage Nantes” exhibition taking place at La Place du Bouffay, the public square in Nantes, France. images via Baptiste Debombourg via Contemporist

San Francisco software QA engineer Max Woolf has created a fascinating map of New York City using all of the yellow taxi pickup locations from January through June 2015 based on NYC TLC Trip Record Data. via Max Woolf

In the second episode of the Huffington Post comedy series Agitators, comedian Paul Gale explains why the DMV always takes terrible drivers license photos. It turns out it’s the same reason why Starbucks employees frequently write the wrong name on cups. That reason, as Gale explains, is that, “I’m fucking with you.”

The creatives at Donkey Products have made a cute stuffed horse head that straps onto your leg so you can give a child a fun equestrian knee ride. It is available to purchase online. Imagine you ‘re a child. Look at a computer game then look at your parent’s leg. What’s the difference? Fun. Bring […]

AsapSCIENCE explains what happens to your body when you deprive yourself of food.

A vocal Australian Shepherd quickly responded to his human‘s request that the word “Mama” be said in order to be rewarded with a yummy treat. Unfortunately, the request was actually for the toddler sitting next to him, who couldn’t get a word in edgewise. It turns out, however, that the clever canine was rewarded with […]

In the latest visual essay by RocketJump Film School, entitled “Why CG Sucks (Except It Doesn’t)“, filmmaker Freddie Wong does a great job of explaining the difference between good and bad CG visual effects in films, television shows, and more. We believe that the reason we think all CG looks bad, is because we only […]

Makerbase is a new online directory of digital creators and the things they make, or as co-creator Gina Trapani calls it, “a directory of people who make things out of bits & bytes.” Trapani co-created Makerbase with Anil Dash. Creators can list their digital creations, like Laughing Squid for example, on the site, and Makerbase […]

Barnsley, England-based technology teacher Alex Dodson of Burned by Design has created a wonderful metal Xenomorph wood burner, based on the deadly creatures in the Alien film series, from old gas cylinders may reignite your extraterrestrial nightmares. Dodson has shared his step-by-step guide on how to build the custom wood burner at Instructables. Alien burner…this […]

San Bernardino County Fire Department posted an intense first person video of their firefighters responding to a single-story house that was on fire in Victorville, California on July 29, 2015. Firefighters from the City of Victorville responded to a reported Structure fire in the 15800 Block of La Paz Drive, in Victorville. Upon arrival, SBCoFD […]

“I Haven’t Seen You In Forever “ by They Might Be Giants, the new music video directed by Todd Goldstein for week 31 of their Dial-A-Song Direct series.

In episode six of Vulture’s Secret History of Television, host Margaret Lyons discusses the television tradition of the “very special episode,” episodes of comedies that focused on teaching a lesson rather than getting laughs. Many shows like Diff’rent Strokes, Saved by the Bell, Family Ties, and Blossom all had “very special episodes,” but the device eventually fell out of favor […]

CineFix has released a new episode of 8-Bit Cinema that retells the story of director Neill Blomkamp‘s 2009 sci-fi action thriller film, District 9, as an old-school 8-bit animated video game. This animated episode was created by David Dutton of Dutton Films with music by Henry Dutton.

20th Century Fox has released the fantastic new trailer for the upcoming Deadpool film adaptation. The wisecracking “Merc with a Mouth” brings plenty of action, witty jokes, and love in the vibrant teaser. The man behind the red antihero mask, Ryan Reynolds, even manages to find time to give Conan O’Brien a soothing back massage, […]

Here is the official statement from @RealMissPiggy and myself regarding our relationship: pic.twitter.com/uHCSsokqWR — Kermit the Frog (@KermitTheFrog) August 4, 2015 Sad news, today on both their Facebook and Twitter accounts, beloved Muppets Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy each posted statements that they are terminating their almost 40 year romantic relationship, which started on […]

Luxury car company Lexus has just released a series of new videos for SLIDE, a Hoverboard they have developed and have been promoting the last few weeks that uses magnetic levitation and nitrogen-cooled superconductors to float above the ground. Creating SLIDE required re-engineering core technologies and uncovering true technical innovations. From assembling maglev technology into […]

The Casebook of Nips & Porkington by Melody Wang is a delightful animated whodunnit that takes place through the pages of a yellowed newspaper, which feline Constable Nips and the porcine Chief Inspector Porkington successfully solve in due time. images by Melody Wang via Vimeo Staff Picks

The world’s tallest and longest tunnel slide will be installed in the ArcelorMittal Orbit Tower sculpture by artist Anish Kapoor at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London. The slide will start 80 meters up the 114 meter sculptured, and will loop around in a spiral five times before a final straight shot of 50 meters. […]

Japanese artist and sculptor Jiro Miura has created a line of brightly colored lifelike animal cling rings that use the animal’s paws or tails to just curl around one’s finger. Jiro hand-crafts each of these and his other figurine jewelry out of clay, so each ring of the same animal can slightly different from another. […]

Pooping Is Logical is a potty training book by Gary Whitta (Star Wars: Rogue One) and his wife Leah Whitta based on Vulcan principles established in Star Trek. The book was inspired by the couple using Vulcan wisdom to potty train their own three-year-old daughter. In a post to his Tumblr, Whitta writes about the problems he’s […]

The Thinkmodo advetising agency and 20th Century Fox teamed up and built a flying drone that resembles the Human Torch (Johnny Storm) to promote the upcoming Fantastic Four reboot film. With the Nassau County Fire Service Academy on standby, the lightweight dummy attached to a drone was lit on fire and launched safely into the […]

Digg has put together a pretty thorough compilation of celebrities whose careers were launched by being a correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and what they are doing now As “The Daily Show” winds to a close, lets look back at some of its most distinguished alumni, from their first appearance on the […]

Warner Bros. has resumed development of a new Dungeons & Dragons feature film after a years-long lawsuit over the rights to the franchise came to an undisclosed settlement. The screenplay for the film was written by David Leslie Johnson (The Conjuring 2). A Dungeons & Dragons film was released in the year 2000 produced by Sweatpea Entertainment, but […]